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...blame the Allies for failing to understand that they were really fighting to defend the West . . . They are, in short, a much-perplexed people, trying to find their way out of a deeply disturbing and humiliating experience without loss of self-confidence and self-respect." Mc-Cloy's conclusion: "The all-prevailing power of the [Nazis] has left many former officials with a longing for a return to power. This element and the undercurrent of extreme nationalism . . . might form a combination willing again to set Germany off on another disastrous adventure. This is a possibility which cannot be ignored...
...SECRETARY OF STATE: 1) John J. Mc-Cloy, ex-U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and old Ike friend from the days when McCloy was Assistant Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; 2) New York's Governor Tom Dewey (who may prefer to serve out his term in Albany) ; 3) Statesman John Foster Dulles, one of Eisenhower's foreign-policy advisers during the campaign; 4) ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman...
...Ease. Mrs. Me Cloy's fluent German and friendly manner put the suspicious kids at ease. "Don't talk about this visit when you go home," she warned as they left. "That could be dangerous for you." Replied the blueshirts: "We just have to tell somebody, and we know we can trust our parents-so we'll just tell them...
Your very excellent article on John J. Mc-Cloy and ... his desire to spare the historic city of Rothenburg, Germany [TIME, June 20] brings to light a historical coincidence not generally known...
...THAT GOT Mc CLOY - Helen AWAY-Helen William Morrow ($2). The aggressively erudite author of Panic has boned up this time on the ancient Picts, the psychology of juvenile delinquency and Poe's Purloined Letter. She turns it all into a pretty exciting chase across the Scottish moors. When it's all over, the critical reader may feel as trapped as the villain by the plot's hard-to-believe major premise. Verdict: very good...